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Article: Where have all the red leaves gone?
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- August 30, 2009
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JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Jerusalem Post
08-30-2009
Where have all the red leaves gone?
Byline: JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Edition: Daily
Section: Science
Memo: NEW WORLDS
Immigrants from North America will notice that the leaves of deciduous trees fated to fall to the ground in autumn are not red but yellow. Now researchers at the University of Haifa and Finland's University of Kuopio have a new theory that reaches 35 million years back in time to explain why. Americans and tourists to the US travel long distances to see ruddy autumn leaves, especially in the northeast. The color is the same in East Asia, but not in Europe or Israel. Prof. Simcha ...